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Pentagon’s New Bug Bounty Program To Let Hackers Take Aim At Select Websites

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

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Pentagon’s New Bug Bounty Program To Let Hackers Take Aim At Select Websites

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SAN FRANCISCO—The Pentagon is inviting hackers to hunt down vulnerabilities in select Defense Department websites through a new “bug bounty” initiative announced Wednesday.Private companies such as Google [GOOG], Tesla Motors [TSLA] and Adobe Systems [ADBE] have used bug bounty competitions to tease out vulnerabilities in its own code, ultimately resulting in a more secure system.The department plans to employ a similar process for its own “Hack the Pentagon” pilot program, the first ever bug bounty competition ever created by the…

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